This Day in Weather History

By The Weather Network

"This Day In Weather History" is a daily podcast from The Weather Network that features unique and informative stories written and produced by host Chris Mei. Weather happens every day. It can be sunn... more

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October 13, 2020 October 13, 2020 - The Freak Fort Erie Snow Blast
It was an otherwise normal fall day for October 12, 2006, the day before...this day in weather history.

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October 12, 2020 October 12 - The Columbus Day "Big Blow"
The Columbus Day Storm of 1962 was playfully nicknamed “the Big Blow”. It totally sounds exactly like something you’d hear out of Seattle or Portland :-) But it was actually originally Typhoon Freda. This powerful Pacific Northwest windstorm beat down the West Coast of Canada and the Pacific Northwest coast of the United States on October 12, 1962, this day in weather history.
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October 12, 2020 October 12, 2020 - Columbus Day "Big Blow" Wind Storm
They called it the "Columbus Day Big Blow". It is estimated to have been the most damaging windstorm on record west of the Cascade Mountains….and it's now on this day in weather history.

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October 11, 2020 October 11 - “Vince” Visits Spain with Heavy Rain
Just weeks after Hurricane Katrina made international news by devastating forever areas in New Orleans, Louisiana and other parts of the southern US, Hurricane Vince developed in the Northeastern Atlantic basin. The rarity of this hurricane was not just who it impacted, but the fact that it formed in these waters this deep into fall.
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October 11, 2020 October 11, 2020 - Rare Cyclone Hits Spain
Other anomalies include storms of this type affecting southern regions like Portugal and especially Spain being deeper inland, but nature does and nature wants and she did This Day in Weather History.

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October 10, 2020 October 10 - Deadliest Hurricane on Record
Today we are looking way back at what was called “The Great Hurricane of 1780”, also known as “Huracán San Calixto”, also referred to as “the Great Hurricane of the Antilles”, and the “1780 Disaster”.....regardless of whatever anyone called this, it is STILL, as of today, known as the deadliest Atlantic hurricane on record. That happened this day in weather history.
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October 10, 2020 October 10, 2020 - Deadliest Hurricane on Record
“The Great Hurricane of 1780”, also known as “Huracán San Calixto”, also referred to as “the Great Hurricane of the Antilles”, and the “1780 Disaster”.....regardless of whatever anyone called this, it is STILL, as of today, known as the deadliest Atlantic hurricane on record. That happened this day in weather history.

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October 09, 2020 October 9 - Landslide Levies Heavy Toll Upon Italy
Today's episode is a classic chase of a great idea...but poor execution. The Diga del Vajont dam was built in the Vaiont Gorge. It was designed to supply hydroelectric power to all of Northern Italy. It instead brought deadly tragedy.
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October 09, 2020 October 9, 2020 - Landslide Levies Heavy Toll Upon Italy
On This Day in Weather History, on October 9th back in 1963 and how was it that everything went so wrong for construction that seemed so right.

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October 08, 2020 October 8 - Michael Becomes a Hurricane
Michael, was the first Category 5 hurricane on record to impact the Florida Panhandle. It was, on this day in weather history, the fourth-strongest landfalling hurricane in the contiguous United States, in terms of wind speed, and the most intense hurricane on record to strike the United States in the month of October...so today's episode was definitely the one to check out.
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